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Welcome to our Medical Support Services (MSS) Division.
The changes in the medical industry relative to E-health have many complex issues. A few are physician acceptance, EMR / EHR, security, lack of opperability and government influence. It is our goal to review these as changes occur, and the effect they have on the medical industry.
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Written by Bradley Siddell
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 The U.S. Defense Department unveiled its "pandemic influenza playbook," which was developed by the Fort Monroe-based Joint Task Force Civil Support team of state, local, and federal officials.
Software technologies are available that can be applied to the investigation and management of pandemic alerts and responses.
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 The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has released new safety guidelines for a bird-flu pandemic. Titled "Guidance on Preparing Workplaces for an Influenza Pandemic," the handbook classifies company operations into four zones, according to risk of exposure during an outbreak. The report includes recommendations for each category for work practices, engineering controls, and the use of personal protective equipment. Companies are also instructed on how to maintain operations during an outbreak and about the importance of educating employees and customers on social distancing and proper hygiene.
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Written by Bradley Siddell
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 Johns Hopkins
University has started to notify university employees and
hospital patients that tapes containing personal information have been missing
for seven weeks. Hopkins
officials said the tapes did not contain patient medical information, and they
believe the data has not been compromised. Eight of the tapes from university
computers held Social Security numbers, addresses, and direct-deposit bank
account information for 52,567 current and former employees, and were sent to a
contractor to make microfiche copies of the data for archives.
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Written by Bradley Siddell
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 In reaction to privacy advocates' concerns over In-Q-Tel's investment in a Canadian software company that develops patient medical records applications, Ontario's information and privacy commissioner Ann Cavoukian launched an investigation to determine if any private data was exposed to the CIA. The software firm, Initiate Systems, Inc. develops software that manages patient records in Ontario and other Canadian provinces. The investigation showed that personal medical data was not at risk for exposure to U.S. intelligence collection as a result of Initiate's relationship with In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital wing. Doug Tighe, an In-Q-Tel spokesman, said that is what his organization maintained all along. Tighe said that just because the CIA was interested in the same data management programs used for Canadian medical records, it did not mean the CIA was interested in Canadians' medical data.
Source: Washington Post
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Written by Bradley Siddell
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SmartDiscovery™ Medical Analysis
An End-User Workspace Application for Medical & Scientific Research and Analysis
 Streaming text, message traffic, cables, reports - the data that medical information managers have to contend with is voluminous. And health professionals don't always know which piece of text may be connected to another piece. Any of this data could be the next critical discovery during a medical history review, diagnosis, or advanced medical research project, or life sciences product analysis.
Today, many information managers are still "hand-chunking" text manually to load meaningful elements (names, places, organizations, symptoms, prescriptions, inventory, etc.) into databases for storage and search. It's time that life sciences companies and health agencies automate this process.
By using Inxight's medical analysis solutions, health Information officers and medical personnel can automatically gather information and identify, extract and classify care-critical entities (people, places, addresses, dates, organizations, medications, medical procedures, examinations, etc.) in unstructured text (in multiple languages) providing faster, more accurate actionable medical and life sciences intelligence.
With Inxight, there is no more hand-loading of data into large repositories and no need for highlighters on hard copy. Inxight's solutions encompass the elements of successful optimized health information and technical trends management: research, acquisition, extraction, and visual exploration.
Once information is gathered using the Inxight SmartDiscoveryTM federated search product or other data collection methods, Inxight aids the Medical & Life Sciences Information Cycle by categorizing, summarizing and clustering information. Mission-critical data elements can then be extracted, stored appropriately, and linked within and across documents.
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